Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Elizabeth Ann Stephens was born about 1839 – she married John Weatherall, a miner, in 1870 in New Zealand.
They had nine children and lived in Waipori for a few years before moving to Blue Spur, near Lawrence, where Elizabeth signed the suffrage petition.
John died in 1900 and Elizabeth died on 8 September 1910, they are buried together in the Lawrence Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Interment.net http://www.interment.net/data/nz/otago/lawrence
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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